Most men see us as lesser and only on the planet for their amusement.
I've only highlighted this comment as it's the most recent but there have been many similar comments on the thread.
It is true and it is wrong but its not an accident or natural law either. And, unfortunately, its so ubiquitous that many women accept it too.
There have been a few threads over the years where women have raised the issue of, for example, sex and nudity in films and on TV. Or rape and sexual violence portrayed for 'entertainment' purposes. Often citing it to be unnecessary and gratuitous and adding nothing to the storyline. There are those who comment to say they agree and others who say, "No one has ever been damaged by seeing tits," or, "Sexual violence and rape are normal (albeit abhorrent) parts of life and should be represented as any other part of life is,' etc.
Yet, there are many aspects of 'real life' that are never shown in films or only shown in very specific films. Eg male on male violence, nudity or sexual assault. These are not included as standard in films about completely unrelated topics but in most films there will be, at the very least, an obligatory shower scene, a naked woman getting out of bed naked, a shoehorned in sex scene where the woman is fully nude but the man is covered. Because the majority of films are made for the male viewer and the majority are not interested in seeing naked men or men being raped and sexually assaulted. And it's very damaging for women that we are presented in that way - as lesser and at the mercy of men.
Laura Mulvey coined the term 'male gaze' to explain how women are represented in films to satisfy the male viewer. There are three components - the gaze of the cinematographer, the gaze of the other characters and the gaze of the audience.
We are all complicit in the 'male gaze' because we can't escape it. We can only view the characters/women through the lens with which they've been shot, the direction. Eg when the shot lingers erotically on naked breasts in a shower scene we are all engaged in the male gaze.
Whilst it doesn't actually refer to men staring at women in the street or men viewing women as sexual objects in real life, it certainly extends to this because that is the lens through which people have learned to view women generally. And even watching films by female writers/directors etc doesn't escape it because the 'male gaze' is dominant film language.
And so when women don't satisfy it because they are covered, not considered beautiful or attractive or sexy, or don't satisfy male sexual desires,.they are ridiculed and humiliated and made 'less than' because beautiful and nude is what men have come to expect. And people will cite handsome actors or newsreaders or TV presenters saying, "Women are no different, look at how they talk about x, y or z." But it is different because we all find people attractive but men aren't presented as only that and only be worth anything for what they offer in that respect.
And some women subscribe to it because they've learnt that's where their value lies. It's also often said that women are far more critical of other women and men don't care - just happy to have a naked body in front of them and all that. And that is because women have also been indoctrinated into this 'male gaze' and not because women are worse or 'the same' inherently.
It's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy though. Men dominate in society, so society is set up (in all its dimensions) for the benefit of men. Yes, women are sexually attractive to heterosexual men. So men choose to portray women as sexually desirable and available because that's how they'd like women to be and how women are in their fantasies.
Unfortunately, we are all immersed in that narrative and there are those men who believe women are willing participants and complicit in this representation and there are those men who believe it is natural law. There are men who regard women as the 'gatekeepers' of sex and believe that most women are sexually available to men and desire to be found sexually attractive at all times.
We're all familiar with the 'manic pixie dream girl' trope and the idea that exists in some men (and women) feminists are just fat, hairy women that no man wants to shag. Or that lesbians just haven't found the right cock yet.
When all women have an inner world, thoughts and dreams and feminists aren't just angry women who can't get a man and lesbians don't want cock however gold plated it is.
But that's not what men have learnt.
Men have learnt that women are there for their taking. That women who disagreed with 'grid girls were just jealous, that women who object to porn are just insecure, that women who speak for women are just bitter because we all know that all women would love to be objectified and sexually desired because, after all, men have learnt that we are only their for their sexual and entertainment purposes.